Cam Gigandet

A native of the Pacific Northwest, actor Cam Gigandet specialized in edgy juvenile and twenty-something roles on television and films throughout the 2000s. He made his debut as a trouble-prone teen on...
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Halle Berry is returning to TV next year (15) after her sci-fi drama Extant was renewed for a second season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series, which airs on America's CBS network, is executive produced by Steven Spielberg. Twilight star Cam Gigandet's new show Reckless wasn't so lucky - it has been cancelled after just one season.

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Actor Cam Gigandet has mixed feelings about his time on teen TV show The O.C., insisting his co-stars Ben Mckenzie and Mischa Barton were "miserable" to work with. The Twilight star had a recurring role as bad boy Kevin Volchok on the hit drama, playing a rival to McKenzie's Ryan Atwood.
However, in a new interview with Elle magazine, Gigandet reveals their feud transferred off-screen, and when asked whether he keeps in touch with any of the actors from the show, he replied, "No. Actually Ben McKenzie was kind of mean to me. I hadn't done anything at that point and he was a little bit of an a**." He added, "But I love him. I think he's a great actor and I love (cancelled U.S. police drama) Southland."
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Gigandet also took a swipe at Barton, who played Marissa Cooper, adding, "Mischa? I didn't really... Was she there? I don't even have memories of her."
Gigandet went on to note the rest of the main cast, including Adam Brody and Rachel Bilson, were equally hard to work with: "I learned a lot, but the things that I remember now - none of them are good... Those kids were f**king miserable. "They were just - they would not remember their lines on purpose. They were young. That said, I don't talk to anyone I've ever worked with."
The O.C. ended its four-season run in 2007.

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The CW’s spy show Nikita closed up shop on its final season recently and although we miss it, we can at least take comfort in the fact that the stars aren’t going too far. Many of the main cast members have moved on to other projects that will soon be able to fill the void left by Nikita. (However, while we wait for all these TV shows and movies to premiere, you can always re-watch Nikita, it’s only four seasons — that’s barely a weekend’s worth of binge-watching.)
Maggie Q (Nikita)
The star of Nikita will be moving to the big screen in the upcoming film, Divergent. Q will play Tori, a member of the Dauntless faction. She’ll play a bigger part in the sequels to Divergent, which are due to come out in 2015 and 2016.
Shane West (Michael)
Our favorite ‘90s heartthrob-turned-spy will star alongside Rachel Leigh Cook, Bill Pullman, and Cam Gigandet in Red Sky. The film follows a disgraced Top Gun fighter pilot who must lead a rogue squad to recover a weapon of mass destruction.
Lyndsy Fonseca (Alex)
You can always catch Fonseca as Ted’s daughter on How I Met Your Mother (even though she filmed that stock footage about 10 years ago.) She’s currently filming for Moments of Clarity due to debut in December. She’ll star alongside fellow Nikita alum Xander Berkeley (who played Percy).
Lyndie Greenwood (Sonya)
Greenwood’s character was noticeably absent from the finale episode of Nikita, probably because she was working on her new show: Fox’s Sleepy Hollow. Greenwood plays Jenny Mills, the sister of deputy Abbie Mills (Nicole Beharie.)
Noah Bean (Ryan)
After his violent departure from Nikita, we’d love to see Bean land somewhere safer on TV. However, our wish isn’t going to come true: Bean has landed a part on Gang Related, which will premiere this summer on Fox.
Dillon Casey (Sean)
Okay, okay, Casey may not have been in the final season of Nikita (we’re still not over his character’s death in season three,) but he’s technically one of the show’s stars. He moved to The CW’s Internet channel, The CW Seed, and starred in Backpackers. He’s also set to star in the Canadian series Remedy this year.
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Actress Kelly Rutherford has landed a recurring role on U.S. TV show Reckless just months after filing for bankruptcy. Rutherford filed bankruptcy documents in June (13) citing her custody battle with ex-husband Daniel Giersch and lack of work as the source behind her financial woes.
The actress revealed that she has debts of over $2 million (£1.3 million) and has spent $1.5 million (£968,000) fighting for custody of her children Hermes and Grace, who now live with Giersch in Monaco.
The former Gossip Girl star will play Joyce, a reserved and hard-nosed member of the City Council, on the series which also stars Anna Wood and Cam Gigandet.

Actor Chris Evans and his girlfriend Minka Kelly helped Jessica Alba celebrate her 32nd birthday on Saturday (27Apr13) by attending her special bash at Bootsy Bellows in Los Angeles. Twilight hunk Cam Gigandet was also at the party.

Kyle MacLachlan Is a Believer: J.J. Abrams newest television venture has added Twin Peaks and Desperate Housewives star Kyle MacLachlan — currently seen in a recurring capacity on CBS’ The Good Wife — to his NBC drama, Believe. MacLachlan will play Skouras, a mysterious billionaire with a mysterious agenda involving the show's main protagonists, a gifted young girl and a man sprung from jail, tasked with protecting the aforementioned young girl. [TVLine]
Hart of Dixie Gets a New Love Interest: Well this is some interesting casting! Rob Huebel, funny person most commonly seen on Children's Hospital, has been cast as a new love interest for Rachel Bilson's Zoe, ensuring fans of the CW that A) a little awkward comedy may be heading their way, and B) Wade and Zoe might not be so quick to resolve things. Oh no! [THR]
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Beau Bridges Adopts a New Son: And what a son he is. Bridges has been cast as Will Arnett's father in the comedian's upcoming, yet-to-be-titled CBS comedy pilot from Raising Hope creator Greg Garcia. Bridges joins an already stellar cast — his wife will be played by Margo Martindale (Justified, The Americans) and his daughter is the Waitress from Always Sunny. It'll be worth a peek for sure. [TVLine]
Fringe Alums Book Pilots: Fringe alumni Seth Gabel and Georgina Haig — a.k.a. Lincoln Lee and Etta Bishop — have both moved on to new TV projects. Gabel just signed on for ABC’s Gothica, which is described as a modern-day Gothic soap that weaves together the mythologies of Dracula, Jekyll and Hyde, Frankenstein and Dorian Gray, among others. He'll play Roderick Usher, the local DA and heir to the once-powerful, secretive Usher family. Haig is joining CBS’ Reckless, a sultry legal drama project set in Charleston, S.C., where a gorgeous Yankee litigator and a Southern City Attorney (played by The O.C.'s Cam Gigandet) struggle to hide their attraction while clashing over a police sex scandal. Haig will play Charleston police officer Lee Anne. [Deadline]
90210 Star Lands Out of This World Role: It's only been a few days since The CW announced 90210's cancelation, but star Matt Lanter is moving on already. The actor signed on to the network's sci-fi drama pilot Oxygen. The show revolves around the romance that ignites between Emery, a human girl (Friday Night Lights' Aimee Teegarden) and Roman, an alien boy, when he and eight others of his kind (The Orion 9) are integrated into a suburban high school 10 years after their species landed on Earth and were immediately interned in a camp where they’ve been imprisoned ever since. Lanter will play Roman, who falls in love with Emery after he befriends her while escaping authorities 10 years prior. [THR]
Gossip Girl Makes The List: GG alum Jessica Szohr has been cast as the female lead opposite Michael Peña in The List. The Fox drama follows Deputy U.S. Marshal Soto (Peña) who, when members of the Federal Witness Security Program start getting killed, leads the hunt for the person who stole "the list" – a file with the identities of every member of the program. Szohr will play Special Agent Natalie Voss, a fearless FBI agent who detests dealing with the Witness Security Program but is intrigued by Soto. [Deadline]
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The actor's fiancee Dominique Geisendorff gave birth to son Rekker on 23 January (13), and Gigandet has shared the happy news with fans on his Facebook.com page.
The newborn is a younger sibling for the couple's three-year-old daughter Everleigh.
Gigandet declares, "Dominique gave birth to our second child, son Rekker Radley Gigandet, on 1/23/2013. He is healthy, happy, and perfect.
"We are humbled to have the opportunity to call ourselves the parents of this beautiful soul, and I am forever grateful to God for allowing me to know this kind of boundless, immaculate love. Thanks to those of you who wish to send your positive energy and well wishes."
The couple has been engaged since 2008.
Gigandet played evil vampire James in the first Twilight film.

Jacqueline Nia claims the star, who played vampire bad guy James in the first Twilight movie, hit her vehicle from behind a year ago (Jan12), leaving her with serious injuries.
She states the injuries caused her "great physical, mental, and nervous pain, suffering, and anguish", and she is now suing him in Los Angeles for unspecified damages, according to TMZ.com.

Twilight would have been a much more interesting movie had it centered on Charlie Swan (Billy Burke). After all, his story would make for the darkest of Oscar indie bait: An aging father is forced to balance his career in a misty town with his desire to reconnect with his moody daughter. (Hey, it worked for The Wrestler.)
But his story is also more complex than any supernatural selection Bella (Kristen Stewart) has to make over the course of the five Twilight films. Besides Bella's screen time-challenged buds and the faceless high school extras in Forks, Wash., Charlie is the only character in the Twilight franchise who has no idea he lives in a world full of vampires and werewolves with a taste for his daughter.
That's exactly why all of Twilight's genuinely good moments center on Charlie's relationship with his teenage daughter. The dynamic between the two is as fascinating as it is horrific. Charlie knows within weeks of Bella returning to Forks that his daughter is leading a secret life — one that involves a frightening trip to the hospital — but he allows her to flirt with danger in order to keep her, all while noticing little more about Edward Cullen (Rob Pattinson) than a hard jawline. Bella, sympathetic to her father's hopes while still shunning his attempts at reconnection, lies to her father for years about Forks' supernatural undercurrent, adding insult to injury by preferring the company of the Cullens' cohesive family unit over the Swans' broken home. Love, heartbreak, betrayal — Charlie feels more in the course of the first film than Bella, Edward, and Jacob (Taylor Lautner) combined in all five.
Consider their conversation (one of the few in which Charlie and Bella actually talk) in the first Twilight film, after Bella stages a fight with Edward in order to protect Charlie from the hunting James (Cam Gigandet):
Charlie: Did he hurt you?
Bella: No.
Charlie: Break up with you or something?
Bella: No, I — I broke up with him.
Charlie: I thought you liked him?
Bella: Yeah, that's why — that's why I have to leave. I don't want this. I have to go home.
Charlie: You're not going to drive home right now ... Look, Bella, I know I'm not that much fun to be around, but I can change that. We can do more stuff together.
Bella: Like what? Like watch baseball on the flat screen? Eat at the diner every night? Steak and cobbler. Dad, that's you, that's not me.
Charlie: Bella, come on. I — I just got you back.
The moment was tragic, and helped a minor character shine brighter than any vampire in daylight. Charlie is one of the franchise's sole good guys — the one who is the most human and humane. Starry-eyed teenagers might drool over Twilight's supernatural sexiness, but anyone with a mortal soul should see that Charlie is the franchise's most appealingly complicated hero. A hero that not only survives Bella's nightmarish teenage years, but one who forgives years of vampire-related deceit. And that's what makes him bloody worthy of the title "World's Greatest Dad."
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Well they're certainly walking a hard line with this one, aren't they? The Hollywood Reporter has details on the up-and-coming new comedy from screenwriter Jeff Tetreault titled Johnson. This will be the seminal film for the writer, and according to Tetreault, "it’s semi-autobiographical." Sounds like he'll really be exposing himself.
The film tells the story of Rich Johnson (played by Cam Gigandet), a working stiff and sexual blow-hard whose excessive lady-bedding causes him to get shafted by his own overworked junk. His genitals take on human form and are played quite erectly by the comedian Nick Thune.
According to Tetreault, there was slight worry if Thune could really pull it off: "Nick is only 6’4, though. Shaq would be more of an accurate physical representation" of the lost member in question. Looks like Tetreault will just have to suck it up, though, as filming gets underway in Chicago next week.
The film's over-the-top sense of humor wasn't too gag-inducing, though. Huck Botko, the recent director of Adam McKay and Will Ferrell's The Virginity Hit has signed on to helm the flick. At least he doesn't have to hang around those two nuts all day.
Looking forward to Johnson? Try and get a rise out of us in the comments!
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Cast as James, the leader of a group of nomadic vampires in the feature adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling novel Twilight

Feature film debut, "Mistaken"

Cast as Daniel Romalotti Jr. on the CBS soap opera "The Young and the Restless"

Made acting debut on an episode of the CBS series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation"

Cast in a recurring role on The WB series "Jack & Bobby" as Randy Bongard

Reprised role of James for the sequel "The Twilight Saga: New Moon"

Acted opposite Paul Bettany in the sci-fi horror "Priest"

Acted opposite Emma Stone in the comedy "Easy A"

Portrayed bad boy Kevin Volchok on two seasons of the Fox teen drama "The O.C."

Co-starred with Cher and Christina Aguilera in "Burlesque"

Summary

A native of the Pacific Northwest, actor Cam Gigandet specialized in edgy juvenile and twenty-something roles on television and films throughout the 2000s. He made his debut as a trouble-prone teen on the daytime soap "The Young and the Restless" (CBS, 1973- ) before graduating to recurring stints on primetime series; most notably as a murderous surfer on "The O.C." (Fox, 2003-07). Features eventually came calling, and Gigandet netted choice supporting parts in "Never Back Down" (2008) and the hotly anticipated vampire flick "Twilight" (2008). His ascension to leading role in the thriller "The Unborn" (2009) signaled that Gigandet was clearly an actor to watch.

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Dominique Geisendorff

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Reportedly engaged

Jay Gigandet

Father

Co-founded popular firewood pizza restaurant The Rock, located in Washington